National Forces of Liberation

The National Forces of Liberation (FNL) is a political party and former rebel group in Burundi. The group was founded in 1980 to promote the interests of the Hutus, a major ethnic group in the country that struggled with the rival Tutsis, as well as to achieve social justice and equality for the people of Burundi. After the Burundian Civil War, they became a political party in 2008, led by Agathon Rwasa. They had 3,000 fighters, and they took part in the Burundian Unrest in 2015 against President Pierre Nkurunziza's government.